Willibrord Frequin pauses TV: 'I don't miss it at all'

Willibrord (80) will never return to television. “It was beautiful,” said the MC who was a guest on the SBS 6 talk show tonight HLF8. “This was my last performance. I did it for Johnny, whom I have known for years.”

Johnny de Mol called it an “honour” that he was the last to receive hesitation. Johnny used to spend a lot of time with my daughter Rebecca. Wise business, eh. “I thought it would be a nice ending for him,” said Fren, who was invited to talk about 70 years of television and his own career that began at KRO in 1963.

As a correspondent at Brandpunt, he provided high-profile reporting abroad, after which he began working for RTL and SBS 6. Between 1996 and 2003 he presented Willibrord WeekAnd Behind closed doorsAnd Eyewitness employment toppers. In recent years, it can still be seen in the RTL travel program Better late than neverWith Gerard Cox, Barry Stevens and Peter Faber. “That was a great adventure.”

His best time? , that I can stand up for people in the community who are in this bad situation. in a Willbrord Week, but also in focal pointperiod, people are under heavy regimes.”

“I don’t miss TV at all”

The frequency is now eighty years old, but there is no need to worry. I’m fit, I don’t have a treadmill yet, I walk a lot. I read books and empty the washing machine every day.”

He “never misses watching TV”. “I watch much less. I find talk shows boring, they all sound the same. Interviews, they are not at all to an extent, to a degree. He slept on it. “What is he looking at?,, Football matches and Veronica inside. I enjoy this a lot. This is where the TV goers are,” said Tcherrin, who has occasionally taken a seat in the past on the show Wilfried Jenny and René van der Geep. and Johan Dirksen. “If they call? Well, I will doubt it…”